Klarinet Archive - Posting 000235.txt from 2001/06

From: AnneLenoir@-----.net (Anne Lenoir)
Subj: Re: [kl] curved fingers
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 03:31:22 -0400

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This particular band plays a couple of Mardis Gras Mambo-type tunes that
I have never heard of, but they are a lot of fun. They also like to
modulate chromatically in blues medleys, one tune "Confessin' the Blues"
that moves around in a few keys. The reason the band is so popular is
because they do a few tunes that nobody has ever heard of, in odd keys.
Tonight they did "Ooo, what a little moonlight can do" that sounded like
a 2-step, bebop polka, and I can't even remember the key, but it just
jumped around all over the place, and I was glad I had memorized the
lick in Charlie Parker's "Donna Lee", which helped to keep me out of
trouble somewhat. I still screwed up, but it was fun. You had to be
there. I can't describe it. ANNIE

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Subject: Re: [kl] curved fingers

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Anne Lenoir wrote:

> When the band plays in A major, that means that I'm in B major (5
> #'s), and all the work I did with my pinkies playing a repeated E scale
> in the lower register, is still a significant portion B major,
> (finger-wise) throughout the entire range of the clarinet. ANNIE

What tunes do you play in A major? Granted, I've only worked out of about
half of the Real Book and half of the Real Book Vol.II...but off the top
of my head, I can't remember having to play anything in five sharps except
when playing alto sax (Wave, Make Me Smile, My Favorite Things...but
that's actually in minor...).

J. Shouryu Nohe
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe
Professor of SarCaSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
"I think we have a ghost in our house." - Kaycee Nicole

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